The one important feature that sold the deal for Seth
Seth shares his enthusiasm for Unifize's filtering capabilities, which revolutionized how Efco manages its data. This feature allowed for a more organized, efficient way to access and analyze information, significantly impacting decision-making processes. Seth’s account highlights Unifize’s flexibility and its ability to adapt to specific user needs, showcasing how this single feature made a profound difference in operational efficiency and data management at Efco.
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00:00 - 00:06
The thing that like, was, wow, that could be really cool - The filtering process. Like, I love how you can just be able to filter.



00:06 - 00:19
I do a lot in the manage view, not necessarily in the conversations because I just want to make sure everything is filled out properly because I'm kind of OCD about it and I like being able to go in and put whatever filter I want on the data that I want because I know exactly what I want.



00:19 - 00:24
But you know, Unifize is just as huge and manage view is just every option that you could want.



00:24 - 00:30
And you talk to them about that you might want, they’ll put it in. And it's just a really good filtering process for being able to get information that you want.



00:30 - 00:40
I get asked to do a lot of just miscellaneous things, like there's some times where people just want to know, hey, how many Z channels did we scrapped out in the last six months off this press because we're also outsourcing that part.



00:40 - 00:45
So we're trying to find whether it's worth bringing it back in or whether it's worth sending all of them out to get formed, right.



00:45 - 00:50
I bet I did that exact report like four times in like the stretch of a year.



00:50 - 00:53
And it's like I still have that saved as an Excel file because I pulled all that off Unifize.



00:53 - 01:02
And I'm just going to go back two months because that was the last time I got asked about it and I'm just going to filter out those exact part numbers and I just transferred over this Excel spreadsheet and send it on its way.



01:02 - 01:14
That's a super positive thing for me, being able to get very detailed on what somebody is asking for, you know, because currently there's a lot of people that are using Unifize like supervisors and stuff, but in the quality department, obviously.



01:14 - 01:17
But most of the time they're not the ones that are asking me for things.



01:17 - 01:29
It's somebody that's across the street or they're going to use some kind of information that they might want of laser scrapper or basically it's an infinite amount of possibilities, I guess you can say, with however you want to get that data extracted.



01:29 - 01:38
I mean, we have four different kinds of tickets and a special or a standard and like there's a bunch of different ways that we filter out that information to go towards the floor.



01:38 - 01:54
And I'd say that that was our priority number one, just making sure that you can load all of our parts and that we could be able to pull data when we needed to and that it would be like live updated and it would keep track of those things without us, fat-fingering something and deleting something on accident and then all of a sudden gone forever and that doesn't happen. So that's nice.

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But what we've known from what I experience was, is we were able to get there with the system. We still there with the system. The system has what is needed to provide us what we're looking for, because every company, admittedly, is trying to get compliant. If we educate people, if we get people the education that they need and to get over the fear factor, I think 90% of those things can be resolved because most people will go to what they're most familiar with.What I worked with from a different company, but they're not willing to sit down and look at what the demographics are saying. People are into social media now. People are moving fast into fast paced world. But technologies are still antiquated. So there's a disconnect here, right? So while we're moving at a fast pace at home with dragging at work, so why can't we continue that speed while we at work?If your supplier has issues and you're not informed on time, you want to have an alternate supplier in place. If your suppliers are not qualified, you may not know that that needs to happen. And so when you have an integrated system that speaks to itself and is giving you all this data, you literally have the pulse of the organization in your hands as an executive at a money bound access.

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